Hey All, thanks for your patience!

You can now hover to show a variable’s value and description! 🚀

@dvaliao

This is a welcome addition.

However: tooltips for aliased values in the variables authoring modal show values resolving to the default mode rather than the actual modes being hovered over.

See this simple example:

To explicitly spell it out: the hex value (#C00) shown in the tooltips on hovering the aliased variables always reflects the base value from Mode 1 (#CC0000) rather than the values for the current mode (#004400 and #663399 for Modes 2 and 3, respectively).

This actually threw me for a bit of a loop earlier this evening. I was hovering over values for the same variable across different modes in order to quickly confirm that aliases that should be bound to slightly different base colors were in fact resolving to different values. Instead, I saw them all reporting identical hex codes. And I immediately worried that I’d screwed something up.

But it turns out it wasn’t me. It was Figma.

It’s possible that the only reason I figured this out is that it’s consistent with annoying (and, I’d say, manifestly buggy) but longstanding behavior that I was already familiar with. Namely: that, when binding alias values in the authoring modal, the sample swatches shown also always reflect the default mode’s color values rather than the appropriate values for the actual mode being bound on:

Tooltips for variable names feel like they would also be a pretty useful addition to the “Branch review” workflow…

As it stands, this does’t offer a terribly practical experience for anything resembling an effective review of my changes: